Hood for use on road-vehicles.



D; T. BROOK & BL REEVE. HOOD FOR USE ON ROAD VEHICLES APPLICATION PILEDDEO.28, 1908.

Patented Mar.15,1910.

tlNTT ens amnerr oration DENIS TABOR BROOK, OF LONDON, AND EZRA REEVE,OF BEDFORD, ENGLAND.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DENIS TABOR BROOK, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at Kenmare, St. Marys Road, Ealing, London, England,and EZRA REEVE, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 44Ashwell street, Leighton Buzzard, Bedford, England, have invented newand useful Improvements in or Connected with Hoods for Use onRoad-Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hoods of the kind supported on parallel bows,connected together at each side by a link pivoted to one bow and havinga sliding connection with an adjacent bow to enable them to be shuttogether and has for its object to construct a hood in such a mannerthat the parallelism of the said bows when being moved to extend orclose the hood is maintained so that the said hood is self-supportingand can be manipulated by a single person seated within the vehicle orfrom either side of the said vehicle.

According to the invention a link is jointed at one end to the middle ofthe link having the sliding connection with one of the bows and at theother end to the said bow, the said two links forming a toggle. Anotherpair of links also connected to the bows and forming another toggle arearranged parallel to the said links, the said pair of toggles beingconnected together at the central joint by a vertical link. A twopartlink is also arranged between the central joint of one toggle and thejoint of the other toggle with one of the hows, the said link parts whenin alinement serving to hold the hood rigid when one bow is extendedrelatively to the other bow.

To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the sameby reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a side view of a hood having the improvements appliedthereto. Fig. 2 is a view of the same showing the frame partly closed,Fig. 3 is a view of the frame with the'peak and a portion of the frontmember removed, and Fig. 4: is a view of a detail hereinafter described.

a represents in broken lines the outline of the motor car body and Z)represents the hood.

0 is the front upright bow forming part of the frame of the hood, andwhich, when the hood is extended, is held in the brackets Specificationof Letters Patent.

Application filed December 28, 1908.

Patented Mar. 15, 1910.

Serial No. 469,689.

0, c on the vehicle body, and cl is the rear upright bow, the said bow(Z being formed with a longitudinal slot 6 and being pivoted at (Z' tothe body of the vehicle.

7, f are the arms which are pivoted at f to the front bow c on eitherside thereof and are provided at their other ends with pins 9 engagingthe aforesaid slots 6, e in the rear bow at. These pins can be locked inposition in the slots 6, to which they may be adjusted by means of thescrews h, h.

As, in practice, the bodies of vehicles may be so dimensioned that thedistance between the bows when extended is greater than the length ofthe slots in the rear bow we may provide means whereby this differenceis allowed for. To this end the said pivoted arms or levers f, 7, may,for example, be made telescopic, as shown the inner telescopic partbeing indicated by f, and suitable means are provided for rigidlyholding the said arms in any position to which they may be adjusted. Forexample, we may employ a framework comprising on each side of the hood 6a pair of toggle lovers 2', y connected respectively to the front andrear bows c and (Z and at their point of connection together to theupper end of a link 70 the lower end of which is secured to theaforementioned telescopic arm 7 and to one end of a link Z the other endof which is attached to the slotted bow (Z and is parallel with the linkj as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

7c is a link jointed at 70 which is hinged to the joint between the link7: and the levers i and j at one end and at the other end to the jointf. The object of this link is to hold the hood stiff when the links fand Z are in alinement as shown in Fig. 1. Furthermore, we may attach tothe inner member of each telescopic arm f at 7 one end of a cord asshown in Fig. 4t, the said cord be ing of the kind known as a Bowdenbrake cord and being attached at its other end to the link is. The cordis inclosed in the flexible tube f one end of which is secured to a lugf upon the tubular part of the telescopic arm while its other end issecured to the link Z. This device has for its object to further assistin rigidly holding the telescopic arms in any position to which they maybe adjusted. The cord or flexible connection will hold the inner memberf of the telescopic arm 7' f from pushing abruptly into the outer member7', when the front bow is being moved rearwardly in closing the hood andas the change of positions of the levers creates slack in the cord themember f will be allowed gradually to slide farther into the outermember, until its lower end reaches the bottom of the slot in the rearbow when the parts will be folded. In opening the hood the change in therelations of the levers will take up slack in the cord and graduallycause the extension of the telescopic arm, j while its movable end isrising 1n the slot of the rear bow. with if desired.

This cord might be dispensed i I connecting the members of each pair oftogm is the frame supporting the peak of the hood this frame beingattached at its lower v end to the front bow o in the usual way and i nis the ordinary frame which supports the 5 rear part of the hood and ispivoted at its lower end to the rear bow d.

lVith a hood constructed as above described it will be obvious that theoperation of extending or folding the same can be effected by one personfrom either side of the vehicle. Assuming that the hood is open, as

the slots 0 in the rear bow (l and the two bows and the said arms comingto lie against one another as shown in broken lines in Fig. 1 111 whichthe whole of the hood 1s mdicated as being folded back. When the hood isto be opened or ektendcd the front bow 0 is lifted by the manipulatorwho, as

above described may be standing on either} side of the vehicle, or evenmay be within the vehicle, and who moves the front bow forward until itreaches the correct position, the pivoted arms or levers f at the sametime j rising up the slots 0 in the rear bow (Z. When j the hood isfully extended the lower ends of l the bow 0 are inserted in thebrackets c in the vehicle body in the usual way.

It will be obvious that in lieu of pivoting the arms f to the front bowor the equivalent and connecting them to slots in the rear bow, the saidarms may be pivoted to the rearj bows and caused to engage slots in thefront bow, and it will also be understood that" other means than thosedescribed may be; made use of for stifiening or preventing the i hoodsagging when being opened or closed.

Having now particularly described and,

ascertained the nature of our said invention and in what manner the sameis to be per formed, we declare that whatwe claim is 1. In hoods forroad vehicles, the combination of a pair of adjacent bows connectedtogether at each side by a link pivoted to one how and having a slidingconnection with the other bow, of links which, together with the saidlink, form a pair of parallel toggles connecting the bows together andof a link connecting the members of each pair of toggles together attheir central joints, substantially as described.-

2. In hoods for road vehicles, the combination of a pair of adjacentbows connected together at each side by a link pivoted to one how andhaving a sliding connection with the other bow, of links which togetherwith the said link form a pair of parallel toggles connecting the bowstogether, a link gles together at their central joints and a two-partlink connecting the central joint of one toggle and the joint of theadjacent toggle with one of the bows, substantially as described.

3. In hoods for road vehicles, the combination of a pair of adjacentbows connected together by a telescopic link pivoted to one bow andhaving a sliding connection with the other bow of links which, togetherwith the said link, form a pair of parallel toggles connecting the bowstogether, a link connecting the members of each pair of toggles togetherat their central joints, substantially as described.

a. In hoods for road vehicles, the combination of a pair of adjacentbows connected together at each side by a telescopic link pivoted to onebow and having a sliding connection with the other bow of links which,together with the said link, form a pair of parallel toggles connectingthe bows together, a link connecting the members of each pair of togglestogether at their central joints, a cord attached at one end to theinner member of each telescopic link and at the other end to the saidconnecting link and a flexible tube inclosing the said cord attached atone end to the tubular part of the telescopic link and at the other endto the link forming a toggle with said telescopic link, substantially asdescribed.

5. In hoods for road vehicles, the combination with a pair of adjacentbows connected together at each side by a link pivoted to one bow, andhaving a sliding connection with the other how, and means for detachablylocking the said sliding connec tion, of links which together with saidlink form a pair of parallel toggles connecting the bows together, and alink connecting the central joints of said toggles together,substantially as described.

6. In hoods for road vehicles, the combination with a pair of adjacentbows, of a telescopic link at each side having one member pivotallyconnected to one bow, its other member having a sliding connection withthe other bow, a link connected to the pivoted member of said telescopiclink, and extending therefrom to the bow having the sliding connectionand forming a toggle, a

second toggle connecting said bows, having part connected to the pivotedmember of its members parallel to the members of the said telescopiclink, substantially as de- 10 first toggle, a vertically disposed linkconscribed.

necting the central joints of said toggles, DENIS TABOR BROCK. and aflexible connect-ion from said verti- EZRA REEVE.

cally disposed link to the sliding member Witnesses:

of the telescopic link, said flexible connec- JOHN E. BoUsrmLD,

tion having a sliding engagement With a C. G. REDFERN.

